Socotra Sparrow

Taxobox
name = Socotra Sparrow
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Passeridae
genus = "Passer"
species = "P. insularis"
binomial = "Passer insularis"
binomial_authority = Sclater & Hartlaub, 1881The Socotra Sparrow ("Passer insularis") is found on the islands of Socotra and Abd al Kuri in the Indian Ocean, off the Horn of Africa. It likes dry areas and towns.

Some authorities have lumped "Passer motitensis", "P. rufocinctus" and "P. insularis" into "P. motitensis" following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).